In
1983, when I retired from
the Meteorological Service, I entered into an Agreement with the
Assistant
Deputy Minister which gave me office accommodation and access to the
library
and archives. In return I volunteered to research and write on the
history
of meteorology in Canada. At that time I began to search for and
examine
articles, papers, books and anything already published on the subject.
I noted the publication details of each and over the years a
substantial
bibliography has accumulated.

This
bibliography is certainly not complete but during my first twenty or so
years of retirement I worked on a fairly regular basis in the Downsview
library and was able to inspect current and archived periodicals and
the
occasional book containing information on the service’s history.
However,
since the early 2000s my visits to 4905 Dufferin have become increasing
less frequent and I am sure the bibliography is markedly incomplete
since
about 2003. In addition I know that in recent years there have
been
many regional climate history studies published which I have been not
been
able to include.

I
also wish to note that this bibliography was not designed to cover
publications
of climate data and information. A published series, Bibliographies
of Canadian Climate, cover the data and information area up to 1981
but I am not aware of any such collections in the past twenty-five
years.
There are undoubtedly many items in those bibliographies that should be
included in this bibliography.

Most of the
items listed in this collection can be found in the Environment
Canada Downsview Library, 4905 Dufferin Street, Downsview.

1853
Anon, "Memorial of the Canadian Institute to the three branches of the
Legislature to continue the Royal Magnetic Observatory under Provincial
Management," The Canadian Journal, Series 1, 2:2:145, February
1853.

1853
"An address read to Captain Lefroy by Prof. Cherriman, first
vice-president
on the part of the members of the Institute, April 2, 1853," The
Canadian
Journal, Series 1, 2:202-204, 1853.

1854
R. Lachlan, "On the establishment of a system of simultaneous
meteorological
observations, etc. throughout the British North American provinces," The
Canadian Journal, Series 1, 2:241-246, May 1854.

1855
Captain J.H. Lefroy and Sir John Richardson, Magnetical and
Meteorological
Observations at Lake Athabaska and Fort Simpson and at Fort Confidence
in Great Bear Lake, (London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman,
1855).

1855
"Supplementary remarks on the subject of simultaneous meteorological
observations," The
Canadian Journal, Series 1, 3:406-410, December 1855.

1855
J.G. Hodgins, "On the steps which have been taken by the Educational
Department
to establish a system of meteorological observations throughout Upper
Canada," The
Canadian Journal, Series 1, 3:410-411, December 1855.

1857
G.T. Kingston, "On the employment of the electric telegraph for
predicting
storms," The Canadian Journal, Series 2, 2:177-180, May
1857.

1858
G.T. Kingston, "Report of the Meteorological Committee of the Canadian
Institute to confer with Dr. Ryerson about meteorological observations
at Grammar Schools in Upper Canada," The Canadian Journal,
Series
2, 3:361-164, July 1858.

1858
C. Smallwood, "The observatory at St Martin, Isle Jesus, Canada East," The
Canadian Journal, Series 2, 4:262-266, July 1858.

1883
J.H. Lefroy, Diary of a Magnetic Survey of a Portion of the
Dominion
of Canada
chiefly
in the Northwestern Territories executed in the years 1842-1844,
(London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1883).

1884,
1885, 1896 Alexander R. Gordon, "Reports of the
Hudson's Bay (sic) expeditions, under the command of Lieut. A.R.
Gordon RN[deputy head of the Meteorological Service]"
Appendices
to the Annual Reports of the Department of Marine and
Fisheries

1891
[C. Carpmael], "Brief history of the Canadian Meteorological Service," American
Meteorological Journal, 7:12:593-596, April 1891.

1899
R.F. Stupart, "The Toronto Magnetic Observatory," Proceedings of
the
Canadian Institute, New Series, part 2, 2:8:31-33, September
1899.

1899
F. Campbell Bayard, "The government meteorological organizations in
various
parts of the world," Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological
Society,
XXV:10:69-132. Canada, p. 83. see pp. 120-122 by R.F. Stupart.

1900
Sir John Moore, "The meteorological service of the Dominion of Canada"
in Meteorology, Practical and Applied, Second Edition, (New
York:
Rebman Co., 1900), pp. 69-74.

1950
A. Thomson, "Expansion of the Canadian Meteorological Service since
1939," [Proceedings]
International Union
of Geodesy and Geophysics,
[Papers given at the] Association of Meteorology, Oslo, 1948, 3:6-7,
1950.

1962
John S. Moir (editor), History of the Royal Canadian Corps of
Signals,
(Ottawa: Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, 1962) (The RCCS was
responsible
for weather observations at isolated stations for many years.)

1978
Malcolm M. Thomson, The Beginning of the Long Dash: a history of
tiimekeeping
in Canada,
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978). 190 p. See
pages
1 to 78. The early Meteorological Service was totally responsible for
timekeeping
and later partially so until 1936.

1987
Barry Grace, "The early history of climate and agriculture on the
Canadian
prairies," Chinook, 9:4:82-84, Fall 1987.

1987
Suzanne Zeller, Inventing Canada:
Early Victorian Science and the Idea of a Transcontinental Nation,
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987). See Part II,
Terrestrial
Magnetism and Meteorology, pp. 115-180.

1988
Richard A. Jarrell, The Cold Light of Dawn: a History of Canadian
Astronomy
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988) See pages dealing
with
the Toronto Observatory, pages 30-75, 188-193 and others.

1988
Marie Sanderson, Griffith Taylor:
Antarctic scientist and pioneer geographer,
(Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1988).(Taylor was a
geographer/climatologist
at the University of Toronto.) See pp. 147-173.

1989
"A pioneering Canadian weatherman," (An extract from "Lost in the
Search
of Weather" by Sir Frederic Stupart as told to Elisabeth Mackay and
published
in the Star Weekly, Toronto, February 11, 1939.) Chinook,
11:1:13,
Winter 1989.

1989
Anon, History of the Canadian Forces Weather Services 1939-1989,
[Department of National Defence, 1989], (bilingual). 35p.

1990
David Phillips, The Climates of Canada
(Ottawa: Canadian Government Publishing Centre, 1990)

1990
Morley Thomas, "The development of climate observing in Canada,"
A research document prepared for the Canadian Science and Technology
Museum
under Agreement 2104-9-214, 1990, 185 p. Published in the Museum's
Historical
Assessments" series in 1991.

1992
C.R. Harrington, The Year Without a Summer? World Climate in 1816,
(Ottawa:
Canadian Museum of Nature, 1992.

1993
Morley Thomas, "Some aspects of Canadian meteorology - a supplement to The
development of climate observing in Canada (1990), A research
document
prepared for Canadian Science and Technology Museum under contract No.
2104-2-070, 1992, 176 p. Published in the Museum's Historical
Assessment
series in 1994

1993
Morley Thomas and John Maunder, "Sixty-five years of international
climatology
- The history of the WMO Commission for Climatology 1929-1993"
(Provisional
edition: 25 January 1993) (Toronto: Atmospheric Environment Service,
Environment
Canada)

1994
R. Peter Broughton, Looking Up - A History of the Royal
Astronomical
Society ofCanada,
(Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994.).

1994
Morley Thomas, "The Formation and Early Days of the Canadian Branch of
the Royal Meteorological Society," CMOS Bulletin SCMO,
22:1:7-13,
February 1994.